
Trump legal team objects to DOJ proposed candidates for special master
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Former President Trump’s legal team objected to the candidates the DOJ proposed to serve as special master to review the records seized by the FBI during its unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump’s lawyers said that the federal judge presiding over the case, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, required a list of proposed candidates, but "did not specify whether that is to include specific advocacy as to why certain nominees are or are not suitable to serve as Special Master."
"[Trump] also submits it is more respectful to the candidates from either party to withhold the bases for opposition from a public, and likely be widely circulated, pleading," the filing states, asking for the court for "permission to specifically express our objections to the Government’s nominees only at such a time that the Court specifies a desire to obtain and consider that information."